Re: [Geology2] Re: The end is nigh, 2.5 billion years ago

(((Linsis) Viri is a Kimism like my use of "stuffs" and adding "-age" to the end of words like "trimmage" for the stuff that people need to trim from their emails as I have done below. But keep nudging just the same as I appreciate it! :-p

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com> wrote:

 

English prof. here... just an fyi, the plural of virus is viruses. The etymology of the word in Latin is that the root form was used as a collective noun; however, after much debate and debacle, the decision is in. It's simply viruses.

Lin

PS Trying hard not to be a nudge.

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Also, just because HIV is a primate disease now does not in any way limit it's having been in other critters in the past. It is quite conceivable that 10 million years ago it wasn't even a monkey disease but was primarily found in another mammal type. Viri are notorious for their mutations.

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